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...Lovely Island. But last week's most interesting Pacific gesture was a carrier task-force raid on Surabaya on the north coast of Java. Next to Singapore, Surabaya was the biggest non-Japanese naval base in the Far Pacific-bigger than Manila or Hong Kong...
...Hold the Cork." Not until some time after Christmas Day did residents of Manila begin to feel real anxiety. Up to that time bleary-eyed Americans stood in jovial groups around Manila's bars. Skittish ones started a run on stores, buying out bandages, iodine, flashlights. A retired major began to see Japs crawling out of whiskey bottles and had to be confined as a nervous case. But everyone was sure that help was on the way. MacArthur beamed with pride over a congratulatory message from President Roosevelt: "Keep up the good work...
Even the bombing of Manila did not upset residents unduly. They were still unable to believe that they were standing in a tornado's path...
Civilian officials had already destroyed one last sign of U.S. sovereignty in the Philippines. They had burned the U.S. currency which had been transported from Manila banks. Washington, Lincoln, Grant, the Great Seal, the signature of Henry Morgenthau Jr., all had gone up in smoke. Now the last sign of sovereignty was to go. There was nothing more for men to hold...
...come from such extreme isolationists as Colonel Robert R. McCormick.† Then last week Manhattan Lawyer Henry Breckenridge, onetime Democrat and onetime close friend of Charles A. Lindbergh, shed light on this issue. In a letter to the Herald Tribune, he quoted a telegram General MacArthur sent from Manila in 1940 to William Allen White's Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies. Said General MacArthur, at the height of the interventionist -isolationist debate: "You have asked my military opinion as to whether the time has come for America to give continued and further aid to England...